COLLAPSE: How Societies Choose To Fail Or Survive

By Graeme Williams. 2005

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Consuming the Planet to Excess (2010, background): “Diamond (2005) notes how environmental problems have in the past produced the ‘collapse’ of societies.”
Early warning signals also precede non-catastrophic transitions (2013, background): “…a broad range of complex systems, such as financial markets, human societies, and the climate, seems to exhibit abrupt (e.g. financial crashes, revolutions and hurricane) rather than gradual behavior in face of gradual external changes (Sornette 2002, 2003, Diamond 2004, Peters and Pielke 2004).”
Adaptive capacity and learning to learn as leverage for social–ecological resilience (2007, background): “Similarly, without resilient social structures that regulate human environmental impacts, the functional dynamics of ecological systems can change (Diamond 2005; MA 2005).”
On the Cusp of Global Collapse? Updated Comparison of The Limits to Growth with Historical Data (2012, background): “The dynamics in the World3 model leading to collapse reso - nate with aspects of other conceptual accounts of failed civilizations (Tainter 1988, Diamond 2005, Greer 2005, 2008).”
Should We Require Every New Venture to Be a Hybrid Organization (2016, background): “This surplus has historically facilitated innovation and the creation of new knowledge that enables economic growth (Diamond, 1997; Nohria and Gulati, 1996).”